The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-15
O'BRIEN'S BL0WSTELLING
MANY OF HIS OPPONENTS WON
OVER BY HIS SPEECHES.

LORD LanSuoWne Keeps away From
Quebec on Account of the Bitter
Feeling Aroused Against Him There
by the Speeches of the Visitor-Mr.
O'Brien's Own Estimate of His Sue.
cess.
MONTREAL, May 14-Mr O'Brien arrived
here to-day from Quebec, and was received
with renewed demonstrations of enthusiasm.
Threats from Toronto continue to loom I'D
bigger and bigger, but the editor of United
Ireland and the people here, who are best
qualified to judge, assert that they are only
threats The statement that Mr.. O'Brien
was escorted to the hall in this city where
he lectured by men armed with revolvers
was pure fiction. No such thing occurred.
His visit here is kindly looked upon by all
parties, particularly since he has spoken.
which has brought over many non-Irish,
who expected him to appear on the platform
with a sword in one hand and a dynamite
bomb in the other. The most significant
fact that has as yet TRANSFERRED is the offer
of the Quebec Irishmen to send stalwart
bodyguard of armed men to escort Mr..
O'Brien to Toronto. Mr.. O'Brien, who is
anxious to do nothing that can be construed
into violent action, refused the offer.
ONE OF THE EFFECTS.
That an immediate effect has already been
produced by Mr.. O'Brien's visit is no longer
doubted For instance, Lord Lansdowne.
who is accustomed to spend sometime in the
citadel of Quebec at this season of the year
will not go there this year, so bitter is the
feeling aroused against him by Mr..
O'Brien's recital of his doings as a landlord
in Ireland. As Lord Lansdowne will not be
in Toronto when Mr.. O'Brien arrives, but at
Ottawa, where demonstration is organic
ing in his honor, some think that any
trouble, if trouble there is, will take place
at Ottowa, especially as Mr.. O'Brien's dem
onstration and that of Lord Lansdowne take
place on the same day.
o'BRIEN ON HIS SUCCESS.
Editor O'Brien being interviewed to-day,
said: up to the present the result has
more than answered my most sanguine ex-
pectations. Although have encountered
good many opponents, | have not ex-
perienced the slightest mark of discourtesy.
have met some who doubted the advisa-
bility of our visit, but have not met a single
one who, having heard us, was not convinced
that we had the amplest and most terrible
justification for the course we have taken.
In Montreal find that within the last two
days condemnation of Lord Landsdowne
has become greatly intensified, and is show
ing itself in quarters from which least ex-
pected it.
HIS EXPERIENCE AT QUEBEC
AS for our experience in Quebec it was so
uniformly satisfactory that although had
the pleasure of making the acuuaintance of
a very large number indeed, of citizens of
all grades and of all nationalities, can hon
estly say did not hear a single expression
favorable to Lord LanSdowne while his
opponents, who attended the demonstration.
were free in their acknowledgements that the
statements, if unrebutted, were simply APP
palling.
SILENCE OF THE PRESS
''This result is, I think, thoroughly Sc
cured-that the Canadian people recognize
that case has been made which must be
answered
mot a single one Of Lord Lansdowne's
champions in the press has attempted to
tackle the facts of the controversy, although
LORD LaTsdoWne many weeks ago
through his aide-de-camp, supplied
them with his version of the
transaction. His friends are reduced
to two pleas, neither of which will bear the
light OF robust public criticism for a
moment. The first is that as Governor
General, Lord Lansdowne is sublimated
above all criticism from the people
whom he rules and who pay
him. This is a doctrine so an
tlpatheuc to British constitutional law
tnat can scarcely imagine how any person
instructed in the rudiments of English con-
stitutlonal history can for moment seri-
ously PROFOUND it.
THE CIVIL LIST.
The Queens civil list is one item of ex-
penditure which the representatives of the
people are not entitled and bound to criti-
else III duty to their constituents, The
TACT That the Canadian Parliament is called
upon to vote money for am purpose en-
titles them and the Canadian people to dis
cuss with most absolute freedom the
purposes to which it is to be
put. Their right to do so
is IN fact the A, B, c of constitutional gov
eminent, much more delicate to pick than
LORD Transformers conduct in Ireland, and
constantly discussed as a matter of right
and duty in the Imperial House of Com
mons
A RIDICULOUS SUGGESTION.
AN English constitutional lawyer would
smile at the suggestion that because the
Queen can do no wrong when acting as the
mouthplece of the State that Governor
General paid by the Canadian people,
can DO no wrong, either, although
1t Is shown, beyond possibility of
denial, that he is using
Canadian money for the preparation of an
injustice which the Canadian Parliament
LaS gain ana again denounced. Lord LanS-
Downs other plea is still more unworthy
one, namely, that his mouth is closed against
defense. His own action, and that of his
agent, utterly confute it.
THE FIRST IN PRINT.
lie was himself the first to resort to a
newspaper controversy on the subject before
mad an opportunity, and the first to make
an exparte and disingenuous statement of
ms SIDE OF the case before l had
any opportunity of answering him. He,
through his aide-de-camp in Ottawa and
through his agent in Ireland, has made him
set literally heard in his own defense in
newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic.
~ is therefore preposterous for him
70 close his door against the news
paper interviewer now, when an adequate
reply-it he can make one---would be most
crushing.
PLAIN FACTS.
we have not dealt with the subject in
explanatory way, but by plain array of
Iacts Ii they can be disputed our position
would be more seriously damnifed than by
a thousand attacks with violence of the
character with which we are threatened at
toronto and Kingston If on the contrary
Lord Lansdowne allows judgment TO go by
uefault 1T will now be impossible for him to
conceal from the Canadian public that it is
because there is absolutely no denying the